National Security
New satellite images reveal activity at unidentified North Korean missile base, CNN
70 House lawmakers to Trump: Kill proposed $33B defense cut, Defense News
Would a $700 Billion Budget Really Sink the Pentagon?, Defense One
Lawmakers Probe Role of Special Operations in Great Power Competition, Defense One
Cracks,… Read More

Featured article:
Musicians of Mars: Attaining Interagency Consensus on Perpetual War in Afghanistan
by Robert H. Gregory, Jr.
There is still a tendency in each separate unit… to be a one-handed puncher. By that I mean the rifleman wants to shoot, the tanker to charge, the artilleryman to fire…. That… Read More

National Security
DoD gets request for 4,000 troops to stay on Mexico border through Jan. 31, Military Times
Saudi crown prince exchanged messages with aide alleged to have overseen Khashoggi killing, The Washington Post
The True Origins of ISIS, The Atlantic
Is Trump really going to cut the defense budget?,… Read More

National Security
Something We Can Agree On: Close Some Overseas Bases, Defense One
Report: Trump Draws Red Line Ahead of Shutdown Deadline, Government Executive
The Korean War is Ending — With or Without Denuclearization, Defense One
FBI’s Counterterrorism Investigations Now Run on Amazon, Nextgov
Trade deal or not, the long-range… Read More

Featured article:
Strategic Defense Impacts of Climate Change: An Interagency Challenge
by Wendell Chris King
The United States faces a complex and scary national security environment. We are confronted with numerous threats to peace and security from both inside and outside our borders: North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, Chinese aggression in… Read More

National Security
The US could regulate AI in the name of national security, Quartz
So we’re celebrating the Pentagon’s failed audit?, Defense News
It has cost $72 million so far to deploy active-duty troops to the border, Pentagon says, Military Times
Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke and Jackie Speier question Mattis… Read More

Featured article:
Collaborating to Solve National Science and Technology Challenges in a Time of Scarcity
by Ian G. Brosnan and Jonathan Stock
In late 2014, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) signed an interagency agreement to explore scientific collaborations with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA)’s Ames Research Center (ARC),… Read More

National Security
Trump defends border deployment amid fresh scrutiny, The Hill
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination, The Washington Post
America’s place in the world depends on conditions at home (and the middle class), Brookings
Why migrants won’t see armed US troops on the border, The Associated… Read More

Inside this issue:
Features
Collaborating to Solve National Science and Technology
Challenges in a Time of Scarcity
by Ian G. Brosnan and Jonathan Stock
Strategic Defense Impacts of Climate Change:
An Interagency Challenge
by Wendell Chris King
Musicians of Mars: Attaining Interagency Consensus on
Perpetual War in Afghanistan
by Robert… Read More